The organising partners of the Standard Chartered Women in Tech business incubator, Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Plc and the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre at Ashesi University hosted an induction ceremony on Wednesday 10th February 2021 to formally welcome the inaugural cohort of the pioneering business incubator for women entrepreneurs...
After a year of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 80,000 Ghanaians getting infected with the virus and over 600 lost lives, Ghana is set to roll out the first phase of vaccination across the country. With an estimated number of 20 million people to benefit from...
The World Health Organisation prequalified and Ghana Food and Drugs Authority registered Antimalarial Pyramax (Artesunate-Pyronaridine), a fixed-dose combination medication for the treatment of malaria, has been approved for clinical trials for COVID-19 in South Korea. Also, it is being tried in South Africa, Kenya and Burkina Faso to pick African...
Russia is committed to helping eradicate the rapidly increasing coronavirus infections in Africa amounting to approximately 3.8 million with its latest developed Sputnik V vaccine. Such a step will enable Russia to reassert its geopolitical influence that involves a keen competition with other foreign players on the continent. An official...
Businesses can also communicate their seriousness in dealing with the pandemic by increasing the regularity with which they clean their premises. In the days before the pandemic hit, cleaning and dusting for many businesses was done just once, probably in the morning. Cleaning was done first thing in the...
Russia is committed to helping eradicate the rapidly increasing coronavirus infections in Africa amounting to approximately 3.8 million with its latest developed Sputnik V vaccine. Such a step will enable Russia to reassert its geopolitical influence that involves a keen competition with other foreign players on the continent. An official...
Telecom company, MTN Ghana has revealed that the decision to remove all charges on cash transfer below GH¢100 in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak saved its customers over GH¢94 million in fees. The company in its 2020 financial report said the move did not only bring financial relief to...
Ghana has received 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. The vaccines arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in the morning of Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Government officials, health workers and some diplomats were at the airport to receive the vaccines. Vaccination is expected to start...
The Savelugu Municipal hospitality has been partially shut down due to an upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the area. The two-week partial closure commenced on Monday February 22, 2021. The decision was taken after 64 staff and patients tested positive for COVID-19. The management of the hospital in a memo...
The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday. The Philippines, which has among Asia's highest number of coronavirus cases, has relaxed a ban on...